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Russia launched its largest combined missile-and-drone assault on Kyiv since the start of the full-scale invasion, killing at least 21 people and overwhelming Ukrainian air defenses already strained by a critical shortage of Patriot interceptors.

New borrowing caps, two replacement repayment plans, the end of SAVE, and back-to-back federal court orders blocking the administration's public service forgiveness restrictions took effect simultaneously on July 1, 2026, leaving millions of borrowers facing consequential decisions with weeks-long deadlines.

A 927-page annual financial disclosure filed with federal ethics regulators reveals that investment accounts owned by President Trump made 327 individual stock purchases on April 8, 2025, one day before Trump announced a 90-day pause on his sweeping tariffs that sent the S&P 500 up 9.5 percent, one of the largest single-day market surges in the index's history.

A new 18-month federal pilot called the Medicare GLP-1 Bridge lets eligible Medicare beneficiaries get Wegovy, Zepbound, and Foundayo for $50 a month by using CMS demonstration authority to sidestep a 2003 statutory bar that Congress has never repealed.

The body of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been in cold storage since February 28; his son Mojtaba was installed as Supreme Leader in March under IRGC pressure; and as a six-day state funeral begins this week with burial set for July 9, indirect US-Iran nuclear talks have paused and the question of what kind of Iran the world now faces is only beginning to come into focus.

A dangerous heat wave over the July 4, 2026 holiday weekend pushed the US Department of Energy to invoke rarely-used wartime emergency powers over the nation's largest electric grid, directing data centers off the grid and power plants past their environmental limits to prevent cascading blackouts.

The modern federal student loan system traces its origins to the Higher Education Act (HEA), signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on November 8, 1965, at his alma mater, Southwest Texas State College.

A rare species of Ebola has spread across all of northeastern Congo even as the United States cuts the aid, surveillance, and research programs that specialists say are the country's first line of defense against outbreaks abroad.

Former CIA Director John Brennan asked a federal court to order the Trump administration to preserve records of two criminal investigations into him, arguing they are political retaliation, while a Democratic senator, Ruben Gallego, faces a separate federal probe of his own.

A major human rights report accuses Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of a systematic, ethnically targeted campaign against civilians during the siege and capture of Darfur's last army-held city, naming three commanders, as the same force now closes in on el-Obeid.